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[woman] Previously on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"...

Girl, we're gonna work out out today,

I even left my glasses at home and everything.

[man] Work it! Keep going, keep going!

Rotate, rotate, rotate.

That's enough. Come on, let's go!

We got [bleep] to do.

I do got [bleep] to do, that's why I'm finna go.

I'm saying that you need to lose a little weight

to be more healthier.

I'm talking to you... [both shouting]

Come meet Shima. Hi, you got a phone?

Say, "What's up?" Has he got on drawers?

Pull-ups? [child babbling]

Excuse me, are you yelling at me?

I decided to invite my ex, Joc, to my engagement party.

I feel like we've been together for some time.

Let's let the world know who we are.

I have the perfect event that I think we should attend.

It's an engagement party! You know what it is.

You know me and Bam, we don't want no negativity,

we just want everything to be cool.

Here it is.

This is our house? This is our house.

As long as you want to come down here and stay.

Oh, how sweet. You ain't gotta wait.

You don't curve your way into this goddamn house.

I curved my way into what? Yes you have!

You are crazy.

So let's say you really want to lighten your skin color,

you would need to get a psychological evaluation.

You're not even helping.

I'm going to excuse myself and take my bag.

You've never been in my shoes!

You look like a white woman trying to be black right now.

[patois accent] It's the same thing! You get your breasts done!

You've never been black so you don't--

I am black!

I was born black!

I ain't ever been nothing but black!

♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ There ain't nothing like hip-hop music, music ♪

♪ This is the life, this is the life ♪

♪ This is the life ♪

♪

Hey. Are you Ace?

I'm Tokyo, nice to meet you. I am. What's up, Tokyo?

So you're here to do a fitness assessment

and consultation today. Yep.

So after I kicked Sierra out of my house,

I felt a little bad.

But I've just been thinking about

how I wanted to lose weight and do things my way.

So I called Che to talk to her nutritionist

because I need to show these hoes I could do this.

What would you say your number one reason

for coming into the facility today is?

Well, mostly, um, toning up, and I mean,

it don't really matter what size you are, like,

you can still, like, keep a healthy lifestyle.

Do you feel like you healthy?

Like, do you feel good? Yeah.

How old are you? 24.

So when you're 44, though... Right.

Then what?

Based off of my life, I've never had any health scare.

And I don't have high blood pressure, I don't have diabetes,

I don't have high cholesterol, like, I don't have any of that.

You ain't lived that long yet.

If you need meal planning tips, preparation, I can help you.

What I can't have?Cheese.

Oh! Eat vegetables twice a day.

So I can't have snacks at the studio no more?

Yeah, you can have nuts.

Huh? Nuts.Fruit.

What's a snack for you?

Okay, you know how I Cheetos when I snack on.

I need the hot fries, you know what I'm saying?

We can't do no junk food, though.

Got to have my Capri Suns, for sure.

Ain't nothing but 100% juice in them.

How much sugar?

That ain't got nothing to with me.

Capri Suns got 100% juice and I'm juicing.

Nah, baby, we're going to cut Capri Suns.

What!?

When you were referred to me by Che,

obviously she's concerned.

I feel like they should be concerned with themselves.

I don't want to hear from anybody

who's had any surgical procedures,

you cannot tell me anything about weight loss.

♪

[singing] ♪ Happy birthday, dear daddy

Hey. ♪Happy birthday to you ♪

Hey, that was so sweet.

My boyfriend Made Man is a rapper

and he's the father of my child.

We had Ginger two years ago

after our trials and tribulations,

we had family dramas, we had some infidelities.

But we're always working on it.

Just something...

for the evening.

You know it's out tonight, right?

When I come back.

When you come back from where?

You know, we got to see

how we're mapping out the video, you know,

this is a big one, you know?

The last song, you know what I'm saying,

so we're in there so big, I got to try to go even bigger.

After Ginger was born I took some time off from work

and I helped Made Man follow his rap dreams.

But I have my own dreams.

I'm coming back.

Like, what time, though?

I would say at least probably about one?

It is my birthday, you know, the fellas,

they want me come through,

I might just slide through real quick.

I want to be here, but you know, baby, this is, you know,

what I'm doing for us and for this family,

you know what I'm saying, like everything's gonna pay off.

It's just a little... you know, a little grinding?

Whatever. Whatever it takes, I guess, I'm there.

I like that, I love that.

I'm kind of bummed that Made Man

can't spend his birthday with me,

but he has been the one that's holding us down.

I wish we could just figure out a way

for both of us to be working.

♪

But since I got all these cupcakes

and I really can't eat 'em, I gonna call Shekinah

and hopefully she can resist them with me.

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh yeah, that's what you wanna do?

Girl... girl, what's up? How'd you get in here!?

I just walked the [bleep] in.

Hey, Gingi! Gingi's over here lit!

Girl, who gave y'all ass candy today?

Girl, you know I did.

Well, you look cute. Thank you.

What's up? Girl.

Russ just left, today is his birthday.

He said he had to do

some pre-production thing for a video, so...

It is what it is-- what's the saying?

You let 'em do what they want

so you see what they don't do.

This what I want to tell you, though.

You know, the other day, we was at the workout,

y'all bitches really went too hard on me and Toe.

Well, I didn't want y'all to think that, you know,

I was putting pressure on y'all.

It hurts so bad.

Once you get through them little...

It hurts so bad.

Well, once you get through those little obstacles.

you'll be fine. It hurts so bad.

It's a real big transition coming from, you know,

eating what you want, doing what you want,

to actually having structure.

Who you talking to? I'm a mother.

Oh, yeah, that's different.

But when are you going Wednesday and Thursday

back to the DJ booth?

After Tokyo's party, I'm really feeling it,

so I'm going to try to get out there.

DJ-ing is, like, the really, like,

only outlet that I've found.

How do Made Man feel about you being a DJ?

He'll be supportive once he starts seeing things come...

He have to see it come first. I have to get a situation

because he's so into his thing right now.

You know I'm happy that you came back to your DJ gigs,

'cause that's what you need to do.

You should talk to Made Man about it. Yeah.

I'm going to go ahead and talk to him.

[Shekinah] Che Mack ass got to get back to work.

This is the modern world

where the rent is expensive,

daycare is expensive, kids...

Need both of the parents working in the household, okay?

And you need to let him know that the baby needs a nanny,

and she need to be an old nanny

because you don't want no young bitch in here with your mam.

I gotta get a 50-- Fifty-year-old woman stuff get hot.

You might need to go older than 50.

♪

[sirens wailing]

[Spice] Ever since my blow-up with the girls at my photo shoot,

I've just been laying low.

I haven't really talked to anyone since.

But I still stand by.

Black hypocrisy is definitely an issue

that needs to be tackled head-on.

I really like... Hello, hi.

What's up, Spice? What's up?

[Spice] So I'ma come to talk to Joc,

because he's super connected to Atlanta's Hip Hop community,

and he know a thing or two about public criticism.

So what's going on with Spicy?

So much.

With me, it's just my kids.

You know, I've left my kids behind in Jamaica with my mom,

so it's like I made a huge sacrifice

just to leave my home in Jamaica

and come here in America by myself and-- you know?

So it's kind of hard for me as a mother,

balancing, you know, everything.

I don't have a management team,

and the reason I'm here

is because I have a song called "Black Hypocrisy"

I just wanted to talk to you a bit

because I know you've been in the business for a long time.

So I would... Black hypocrisy.

I believe I need to address the issue.

I believe that oh, they say, "Black is beautiful.

Love the skin that you're in,"

but they're the same ones that will say,

"Oh, she too black."

Oh. To make my statement,

I want to actually come out

as a lighter skin, to prove my point.

'Cause it's like you put out the song...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to show you a picture

of how I'm expecting to look.

How many [bleep]?

Ah, that's a whole other person, though, man!

You're gonna be-- what?

Hell-- is this you? Is this you?

That is me.

So you're figuring to go all the way Sammy Sosa,

you're figuring to do it. I'm want to go all the way.

[Joc] This is my opinion.

Spice is beautiful just as god made her,

and I'm just really not sure this little light-skin thing

looking back at me in this photo gonna be in her best interest.

Help me understand what you're trying to do.

In Jamaica when you bleach your skin they praise it.

It's not as taboo as it is here. Oh. Right.

...in America. It's a little different.

Like, I'm the biggest female artist from Jamaica right now,

so I have a big platform so I believe

like I need to speak out for the other dark skin women

so I can show people that this

is what you are causing women to do.

Okay. Spice, do it.

If you believe 100% that you're gonna make a change

for the greater good of humanity, go.

All gas, no brakes.

But you can't just jump off the building

without a parachute.

Make sure that you have crossed your t's and dotted your i's,

because want you don't want to be is a laughingstock

of the person who tried to prove their point,

but further made themselves look stupid.

[man] Coming up...

[Joc] Spice came into the station.

She's finna bleach her skin... white.

I never told Tokyo she was fat, that never came out my mouth.

I told her she needed

to take this weight loss journey more serious.

I don't wanna hear nothing about weight loss

from nobody who laid on no table, like...

Don't fall into the [bleep] trap and bleach your skin!

I don't want to be on one level for the rest of my life.

The people that love you

are going to think you're selling the [bleep] out!

♪

[men whooping] Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Oh, yes, Kirk.

Oh, yes, boy.

Jesus. [laughing]

Boy, yeah.

Whoo! That boy on your neck!

[Scrappy] Man, it feel good to be out today.

And I ain't even do no go-kart speeding

and riding and hitting each other and all that.

But my foot's still smashed, you know what I'm talking about?

Bam overdue, man, ready to explode.

She done with me being excited.

Man, she done sent me out the house, too,

want everybody out, man.

But, hey, I'm chillin' and just kickin' it with the guys.

He's trying to get you-- oh, he let him go!

He let him go!

[engines revving]

Stop, fools, stop, stop, stop.

Whoo!

Ha-ha! Hat's off to me!

You know what I'm saying,

because I'm the winner of this race and this thing called life,

you know what I'm saying.

Scrappy lucky he ain't have to get behind me,

eatin' none of this exhaust.

My kart went by and I said...

[slowly]No...

I couldn't get in there with y'all

because I ain't mentally ready for that [bleep].

But you figured out how to go through the curve.

That's how I like my women, too, curvy.

Oh, Lord.

What been going on with you man, with them women, anyway?

Curvy.Curvy.

The women-- there ain't not even no wo-men.

That ain't how it sound on the radio.

What-- what you mean, Kirk?

I was riding in the morning and I heard you cracking jokes

about Karlie.

You and Karlie back together?

...some Indian giver-type trick.

You know what we're talking about before,

the whole she's sitting Indian style...

I don't want no problem because my situation

different these days, you know what I'm saying.

What you mean? Feeling better.

You look better.

Oh, Kirk. [chuckling]

But anyway, my lady, I'm like, [bleep] looking nice, I gotta...

Keep up your joint.

I mean, who are the ladies, though?

You know, my lady Kendra.

You haven't seen her before,

you just ain't know because I beat y'all move.

So is this real? Bro, yes.

She, she got my attention, straight up, I ain't gonna...

What she do? She's an attorney.

An attorney.

[Scrappy] I'm lost.

So my cousin Joc has a whole love life, girlfriend

that I ain't knew nothing about, you feel me?

I kind of feel like he been lying to me.

Now, you weren't going out with her and stuff like that

while you was with Karlie.

Well, it's kind of like-- Did the relationships overlap?

It was overlapping.

The crazy part about it, though,

she heard about the invite I got to Karlie's engagement party.

I think this would be a good time for us to go public,

that way everybody will know that your affairs are in order.

Wow-- hoo-hoo! Ain't nothing for nobody else to worry about.

You need to just go and keep it one thousand, bruh,

because you're traying to act like not telling Kendra is,

like, really [bleep] rude to do.

Because Karlie's gonna use that against you.

You know Karlie'll do something,

just shout something out one day.

She might be around, she'll do some crazy [bleep].

For real, you might want to just

keep that [bleep] all the way clean.

Why I gotta go to Karlie's engagement party?

None of these other guys are being dragged out.

And then I gotta bring my girl?

Yeah, there was a little overlapping shh going on,

but me and Kendra's solid.

And I'm just trying to hold my place, you know,

trying to stay on my square, man.

The thing that I want to know, like,

how does Rasheeda and Jasmine get along, like, are they cool?

Nah, we ain't got to that level yet, man,

we just got Kannon in the house, Rasheeda's family met him.

It's just different from having a kid

that you raised in your household

and then one you got to bring and introduce into your house.

How's Jasmine's family dealing with that?

How is that going?

Kelsie be getting them and always got to go to her mom

and her grandmom to get them and I'm like, damn,

are you putting in time with Kannon?

Can you be a little more of a mom?

I don't need if I'm being over...

you know, stepping my boundaries.

No, Kirk, you gotta do that like how you did baby Karter.

I want to kind of sit down and try to holla at them,

you know what I'm saying?

Some kind of dialog.Yeah.

I think that's big of you.

I don't know if y'all-- have y'all heard them talk about

this new song Spice got?

This whole "Black Hypocrisy" [bleep]?

Nah.

Spice came to the station.

She's finna bleach her skin... white.

Oh, wow.

She looks like a whole other person.

Is it real? No, it's Photoshopped.

She really trying to do this [bleep]?

I just think that she want to show people

just how the system really works.

She feels like the lighter you are,

the better you're treated, so...

[Kirk] That's true.

I think that's right...

No, no, no, no-- they treat us bad.

I feel... I, I understand, like...

I mean, y'all, y'all married

and I don't want to ask y'all this, but--

Ask me.

I mean, would you hit Spice?

I didn't think you were gonna ask me that!

I mean, you know what I'm saying, she's dark skinned.

I ain't gonna lie, if I saw a light--

if I was a single man and, you know...

You'd smash it. Huh?

"Huh?" [all laughing]

Honestly, I would smash her light or dark.

If I was a single man.

"If I was a single man." [laughing]

♪

Ooh, child, I'm tired.

I'm so sick of these jam [bleep].

Why? Just stop talking about it.

It making me tired thinking about this [bleep].

Hey, y'all. Hey!

[Tokyo] My girls, they done got together

and they done formed them a regular, little workout group.

But the way they be working out

is just really not the way I like to work out,

so I skipped their ass at their gym

and I'll meet y'all at the Smoothie Bar,

this is more my speed.

♪

So, Che, what's been going on with Made Man and Gingi?

You know, we good, we're in a good place.

I was just wondering,

I want my baby daddy to meet up with you and do some music.

I want y'all to collab on something. You got it!

You love Made Man very deeply.

I do love him. So you're trying to get him a record deal.

I love Sierra very deeply,

but that ain't ho gonna keep picking with me.

What's wrong with you?

I ain't got time for talking on her bull crap.

Okay, and I don't have time for any of your bull crap.

So look, what I miss, please?

She came to my house, trying to check me behind my lifestyle,

telling me about how I need to lose weight

and I ain't eating the right [bleep] and I'm fat.

I never told Tokyo she was "fat,"

that never came out of my mouth.

I told her she needs to take

this weight loss journey more serious.

As serious as her. Because she ran out of

the gym the other day when we was all working out.

Because, Sierra, I didn't want to work out with you no more!

But you don't want to work out with her?

Because she stand up there trying to coach me

and tell me what the [bleep] I do when you're on the phone--

what you doing?

I don't want to hear nothing about weight loss

from nobody who laid on no table, like...

I laid on a tab-- And that's cool.

Bitch, I want to work out on my own terms.

I don't need your help.

Go save the rest of them hoes

that you're friends with that don't like themselves.

Who? The hoes that be pumpin'

silicon in 'em because, bitch, that is what's killing hoes.

[Shekinah] Yeah, I've laid on the table a couple of times.

But as of right now,

I choose to try to do it the more healthier way.

I mean, there's heart diseases out here,

there's cancer out here, there's all kind of stuff out here,

so we have to work on being a healthier us.

I'm not saying you need to be skinny.

I love you the way you are.

I'm not telling her to be a size two.

I don't want to be a two.

I just said you need to be healthier,

and I went to her house, she eatin' fried chicken and pasta.

Because that's what the [bleep] I chose to cook that day!

You drink, bitch! Alcohol killin' people!

This bitch is so mad,

this bitch gonna put me out of her house.

Why you put her out? You put her out?

After she got to throwin' [bleep]

around my mother[bleep] house!

Then squared up with me and try to fight me!

After you pushed me first, bitch!

I'm not ever coming y'all house no more.

And guess what, bitch, it's okay because I've been

put out of better places, so [bleep]...

Stop it! Enough is enough!

...put out of better places, bitch, my house is fabulous!

[Sierra] I thought that Tokyo would understand

that I'm only concerned about her well-being.

Sidebar, enough is enough, y'all need to get along.

And at this point there ain't nothing to get along about.

Bitch, I'm finna to go.

No, you not! I'm gone.

[woman] Coming up...

Look, it's time, I'm taking that job at Eleven 45.

I can't keep on depending on,

on you or, you know, anybody else.

I just have a little concern.

Sometimes Jazz is partying.

No, I don't think she parties too much,

I think you're overexaggerating.

Hey, Jazz. What's going on?

[man] ♪ Pushin' up cars like GTA

♪ Hookin' bad dudes like every single day ♪

♪

Whoo!

[rap song continues]

Ginger's been screaming "daddy" all day,

so we packed up a bag and we headed to his video shoot.

We're gonna bring these girls out, all right?

What's up, Che? How you doin'? Hey, what up?

I was pretty hurt that Made Man left my birthday celebration

to go to a video set and work with Video Vixens,

but now that Tokyo has agreed to work with Made Man,

I want him to know

that I'm making moves for our family as well.

Come on, come on, let's take your jacket off.

[Ginger softly] Daddy.

She's sleepy.

So you talked to Tokyo and Shekinah and them?

Yeah, it was good to see everybody, you know.

And I asked Tokyo to work with you on a song.

Really? Lock in some new things,

because I haven't fell off.

I'm basically like...

You didn't really fall off, you just took a break.

Look it's time, okay?

I'm taking that job at Eleven45.

Oh, yes, I got an offer to be a resident DJ

at the hottest club in the city.

But for me to take this offer,

Made Man's gonna have to make some compromises

in his own schedule and help me with Gingi.

The club open at ten, and I'll be done by 3:00.

I need help. It's all good, it's all good.

I need assistance. We got that.

We on a schedule together and work it out?

You deserve, you know what I mean, you've been in the house,

you know what I mean, you know, you done took this time out.

I can't keep on depending on you or anybody else.

Now it's time to depend on me, you know what I'm saying?

You know, we're gonna work at that, you know what I'm saying?

All right.

I'm so happy that Made Man is compromising with me

in this situation because he knows

I need to make my own money.

Our relationship is on a positive note right now,

and I really want to keep that momentum.

So, Gingi, we're gonna go bye-bye?

You see Dada? You got it out your system?

[Ginger babbles] You ready to go to...

[kiss]

I love you. Love you.

[Ginger] Bye-bye!

♪

Hello. Hey, how are you?

How are you doing? I'm well.

[Kirk] After all the little things

about Kannon and how he's being raised,

I was gonna confront Jasmine on it,

but I know that's gonna be nothing but an argument.

I figure since Kelsie's always picking up Kannon

from his grandmother's house,

I felt like I'll reach out to Jasmine's mom

and just check in and see how my son is being raised myself.

I feel like we're in a decent place, I just

have a little concerns,

you know, sometimes Jazz is partying,

and this is my concern, like,

I'm mad at her because she might hit me and say,

"I need to go do this, I'm going to a party in LA

and I just need you to watch him."

But I just wanted to make you guys aware...

Yeah. As y'all are in Kannon's life...

a lot more. Hey!

Hey, Jazz. What's going on?

Hey, Jazz, we're having a little conversation here.

Yeah.

I see.

Kirk's dumb ass thought that mom and grandmother

was gonna have a conversation with him

without telling me that he was coming over?

So I thought that it would be more productive

if I just swung by and cut out the middle-man

so we could get to the bottom of things.

[Yvette] So we've been talking about Kannon's well-being.

Just chopping it up about how he's taken care of.

Mm-hmm.Kirk had a little concern

because he thinks you party a lot.

What gives you that impression, that I party a lot?

Well, I don't like when I get a text or get a call

saying from Kelsie, like,

"Hey, um, you need to get Kannon right quick,

I need to fly to LA because I'm going to a party."

That happened one time, once.

Right, right, right.

You haven't been there for any holidays,

you haven't been there for any birthdays.

You want to post family first on Thanksgiving.

I just don't like it when I feel like I'm working,

busting my ass, and you hitting me with,

"I need to go party so you need to watch him."

You're not even around enough for me--

for you to tell me that I party too much.

Kirk just recently got involved with his son,

and he wants to call me out on my parenting?

He needs to become a father

before he can even think about commenting on me as a mother.

I just want you to have more of a relationship with him.

I spent a lot of money on Kannon.

First of all, money doesn't make you a father.

Okay, so here's another issue.

I feel like why is he still wearing a pull-up?

Because he's two years old.

Yeah, yeah. And he's a boy.

But here's my point... Well, let me ask you this,

where are all these concerns coming from?

They're coming from me spending more time with him now

and him spending the night.

You know, I get pushed even at home

to make sure you're doing your job as a father, so...

So you don't got nobody in your ear?

I mean, for real. Is somebody--

is Rasheeda asking me, what is he doing, yeah, she may ask,

"Dang, why is he still wearing pull-ups?"

You need to get on it.

She even saying to me, you need to make sure you...

It sounds to me like you're taking baby steps

because of Rasheeda when it comes to Kannon.

Not-- that's-- no, that's not true.

[Jasmine] If Rasheeda has these many concerns,

why not have a conversation with me about it?

Especially when Kirk is sending his daughter Kelsie

to be the middle-man on how we deal with Kannon.

Something needs to be worked out

because he needs to really visit more often.

I will do my best, I agree.

And let's work on being in contact.

You need to have a direct number.

You want her to get in contact with each other.

Why can't it be something direct?

Work on that, seriously. I'll work on that.

[man] Coming up...

Whatever it is that you're going through,

my baby's being induced today.

I'm just wanting peace for the kids, mainly.

She's using her platform as white face to make her point.

Because if I stay blackface

you're not gonna get the point, Mimi!

♪

[Momma Dee] After Scrappy gave me a lecture at his new house,

I've been really trying to be better.

So when Cece invited me to lunch, I said, okay,

I'm a little hungry anyway.

What you call me here for, girl?

Well, I called you so that we could squash all this mess.

Whatever it is that you're going through,

my baby's being induced today,

we're fixin' to have a grandchild.

Yeah. I'm just wantin'

peace for the kids, mainly.

I think you're right, I think you're right.

I do want to apologize for my actions.

I really do. And I accept your apology.

Well, thank you.

But what I need you to know, Dee...

Mm-hmm. Is I'm here to stay.

I'm not just visiting.

This is home now. Okay, cool, cool, cool.

I just need you to know this. Okay.

Can I order some wings before we go to the hospital?

We're gonna have wings at the peace treaty, really?

Yes.

I'm not so sure that I'm good

with Cece living at Scrappy's house.

I'm not even good if she move to Atlanta permanently.

But for the sake of the baby, Scrapp and the Bam,

I'm willing to make peace with this.

Well, here's to us. This is too much stuff to eat.

I got to get back to the hospital.

Let's go, girl. Mm!

Can we get this to go?

♪

[Mimi] It's been weeks since I talked to Spice,

but now that I have my personal business taken care of,

with Faith and Stevie, I can go back

and handle my friendship business with Spice as well.

Hi, Spice. Hi, Mimi.

[Mimi] I invited Spice to the Sweet Auburn district today.

It's rich with history,

all about the Civil Rights Movement.

People here fought and died to be considered equal.

I want Spice to know she shouldn't have to change

the color of skin to be accepted.

I wanted to first apologize on my end

for everything that I did and said.

I appreciate that and I want to apologize to you too.

I think I want to be able to explain myself, um,

more calmly and in a better way.

All right, well, we're gonna start here, come, come.

Come with me.

[Spice] When Mimi called me to meet her

down here today I agreed to come.

We are friends, and if I can't understand where my friend

is coming from, then there's no way I'm gonna even understand

some of the criticism that the public will have for me.

But at the same time, I just really hope that my friend

can understand why I'm doing what I'm doing.

This area, Sweet Auburn, was where people, you know, marched,

and black African American businesses

were all owned up and down this street.

[Spice] So this is where it started,

this is where basically the Civil Rights and everything,

this is where it started. Right here.

Well, I wanted to take you down to this museum,

let's walk down here, I wanted to take you down and show you

a little bit of, you know, our black culture,

and just to give you just a little insight.

Spice and I may be having our cultural differences

on skin bleaching, but people in America

have always tried to fight through the discrimination.

So I set up a tour at the Madam CJ Walker Museum.

Black history is celebrated here

in the name of a woman who pioneered black beauty products.

I hope Spice can see that Americans fought for us

to be proud in our black skin.

Welcome to the Madam CJ Walker Museum.

My name's Ricci, I'm the Curator and Artistic Director

of this incredible space.

Nice to meet you. Thank you very much.

My pleasure. Let me let you know,

this is an original

Madam CJ Walker beauty shop from the 1940s.

[softly] Wow.

The beauty tools on display were left in here.

That being said, let me talk about the present,

because on the internet it says Madam CJ Walker invented it.

This tool was used in France before she was born,

but what she did was take the original pressing comb,

which had fine teeth for Caucasian hair...

Okay. And look, Madam CJ Walker...

made wider teeth so it could go through Negro hair.

So that's why Madam CJ Walker's name

keeps getting connected with the pressing comb.

I got ya. That being said,

if you turn around and see this wall of vinyl behind you,

upstairs, above this studio

was the first black owned radio station

in North America, WERD.

It's the station that Martin Luther King used.

This place is rich in history.

The women of the Civil Rights movement

would've gotten their hair done in here.

During the Civil Rights movement--

So what did women used to do to their hair?

They used to try to straighten their hair with a comb?

It was designed to release

the amount of stress in the curl.

No stress in that curl. ...just to get control.

Ain't no stress in that curl.

Man-- do you style hair?

Black hypocrisy-- you see, I tell you?

Black hypocrisy, I keep telling.

It's going to be an argument to the end...

She have her own way of thinking about it, no matter what.

I brought you here to strictly teach you about American culture

and what we went through as black Americans

here in America.

And all I'm saying right now is how they invented the attire

to change the texture of the hair

so we could probably fit into the system.

But trying to turn ourselves white

is something totally different.

That's a US perspective, trying to turn yourself white.

Jamaicans are doing it-- they're not trying to be white.

It's different.

It's just a style, just like you have an accessory...

Bleaching is an accessory over there, period.

Their social structure is different.

And if you could get a job at a bank,

she might not...

But she's using her platform

as white face to make her point.

But if I stay blackface

you're not gonna get the point, Mimi!

If I stay this way and post on my page every day...

No, ma'am, I disagree with that.

I disagree with that. Thank you, thank you.

I disa-- no. Thank you for your time.

I really... No problem.

Thank you for this lesson. We'll continue this discussion

at another time. I'll be back-- yes.

I wish I could stay longer.

Yeah, I want to talk to you outside, please?

[Spice] Black hypocrisy's not just about your skin color,

it's also your hair texture,

and I think a lot of people need to know that.

And here we go again, the straightening iron,

as I see, was another way to straighten your hair

so you'd have a different appearance.

Let's be real here.Okay.

Let me explain something to you. Yes.

I believe that some-- not all--

some black people, they're very hypocritical.

Madam CJ Walker, you know,

the French invented the hot comb.

Right.She was the first one

to use it to straighten the kink out of the Negro hair.

But she was still promoting black is beautiful.

But you're taking out the reality.

And nobody wants to talk about it but me.

Going through it as a darker skin,

I feel like I need to use my platform to talk about it.

Not everybody is strong enough to take the bashing--

Are you strong enough to take this bashing, Spice?

I am. I know that I'm speaking out for something

that has been swept under the rug.

My kids are still in Jamaica, they live in Jamaica.

I'm here, on the road, trying to make it.

And you think being a lighter skin will help you...

Society plants that, I did not.

The people that love you are going to think

you're selling the [bleep] out!

No. Yes!

You're a lighter skin, and you are privileged

because you are a lighter skin.

My mother marched down these streets to be black,

to be proud to be black!

Don't fall into the [bleep] trap and bleach your skin

and do just what they're saying you should do!

Make them [bleep] feel dumb for criticizing you!

Are you gonna have a neck job?

Yes, I want a neck job. My color?

I wouldn't give a [bleep] if it was the color

of this lady hair on your shirt!

One day when she comes home and say,

"Mommy, I went outside and this is what happened to me,"

then you're gonna know what the [bleep] I'm going through.

Have a good day, Mimi. You know what, Spice,

I just don't like what the [bleep] you're doing!

[woman] Coming up...

Bro, I'm your dad, I can't wait to see you and meet you.

[all cheering]

You know Spice is supposed to be going live in a minute.

Girl, what is she doing?

[Spice talking on phone]

Oh, Lord, child.

♪

[Scrappy] See your mama over there, she eating soup.

Bro, I'm dad, man, I can't wait to see you and meet you.

♪ Lovin' you is in my DNA

I am this baby's father, you feel me?

And I'm finna take the front row seat, Jack,

and deliver this baby.

♪'Cause loving you ♪

♪ Loving you is in my DNA

Now, I haven't done this before, obviously,

but everything's different now.

Hell, I'm grown!

This finna be my baby boy.

♪Loving you is in my DNA ♪

[Bambi] Scrappy's gonna have so much fun with this little boy,

I can already hear them in the backyard

playing basketball and Scrapp teaching Breland

his little lingo.

[all cheering]

Now, see, I love E Money,

E Money, that's my heart, we partners,

you know what I'm saying?

But my son, he gonna come with it, Jack.

All right!

There's another guy out there with my DNA.

And he's comin' to you, so you better watch out, world.

♪

♪

[Rasheeda] The clothes tags, they should be delivering those too.

So be looking out for him to come 'cause...

Hi! Hi, girl!

What's up? Lookin' all cute and stuff.

What's goin' on? You look cute!

I'm in the market to buy a new outfit

for Karlie's engagement party,

and Rasheeda's shop, Pressed,

is just the place to get me glammed up.

It's also a great place to catch up on all the stuff

going on with Miss Spice.

What's going on, honey?

You know Spice is supposed to be going live in a minute.

Girl, what is she doing?

You know I met with Spice

because I was feeling real uncomfortable

and real uneasy about how we left things off.

Yeah, that [bleep] crazy.

I took her down to Auburn Avenue

and I just wanted to give her a bit

of our culture and history.

Taking Spice on a black history tour

definitely did not go the way I'd hoped.

Now she's supposed to be going live on social media,

and I for one, am not looking forward

for what she has to show.

But wait a minute.

What's up with the fam?

Honestly, it's been a lot, I would say.

Mm-hmm.

Being that Kannon spends a lot of time

with his grandmother and great-grandmother,

I was discussing with Kirk, I was like,

well, why don't you go and talk to them?

You know, 'cause it's a difficult situation.

Correct.So, um, he told me that, um,

he would do it, and he did.Mm-hmm.

They're getting on a page of, you know,

trying to work out how to do

this whole co-parenting thing, minus her ass,

she wasn't there.

I just expect for him to be clear on the communication

with me when we're dealing with this stuff and execute

what he tells me he executes. [phone vibrating]

Okay, well, let's see what this live situation is about.

Right, because, like, where is she going with this

whole situation? I told her this...

[Spice talking on phone]

Oh, Lord, child.

[Spice on phone] ...because of this new project that I'm working on.

♪

So, are you excited about Karlie's engagement party?

I am.

I honestly think this is the one.

Like, she's really been happy.

I just want to go and just see the end result.

Girl, what in the [bleep] going on with Spice?

[Rasheeda] Listen, let me say this, I love Spice,

but she is doing some [bleep] with this.

♪

[laughing]

Bitch, you [bleep]...

I know. I've been so ramped up

arguing with Sierra ass that I missed something.

Why the [bleep] is Spice white?

I'm mostly called black by my own race.

I try to please them,

so I'm going to see what they have to say now that...

because of them, I've changed my complexion a bit.

The last time I seen Spice, me and her both

was finna whup Freddy Kruger ass

for tellin' her that she needed to change her look.

And we both agreed that she didn't need

to change her look, so I'm baffled.

Girl...

This cannot be real!

[both talking at once]

Girl, this is Spice official.

Spice done went white.

Is this the right way to approach this situation

that's happened in your life?

Maybe something you want to get off your chest that's topical?

Get it off your chest and keep pushing.

Because what threw me off

was her saying she was contemplating on doing it.

Me too.

[Mimi] I can't tell you how disappointed I am in Spice.

Looks like taking her on this black history tour

just went out the window.

I know Spice wants to level up in her career,

but she's successful as a dance hall artist.

I don't see how bleaching her skin

is going to make her any different or more successful.

At the end of the day, all these [bleep] for men.

Like, men be putting it out there that light skin

is the right skin and that's what they like

and so all these hoes is just, you know,

they're not liking it, so...

[woman] Next time on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"...

[Spice] I'm doing it for a cause,

I'm doing it so black community can understand

that they are leading a lot of people to bleach.

I don't think you need to change [bleep] about yourself.

So are you still considering?

No, wait, hold on, I was gonna say when it came up.

[imitating Spice] "We're not takin' any questions, gal."

Oh! [laughing]

Tiera disrespected my whole household.

She punched him in the face, in the nose.

Why are you telling my business?

What the [bleep], why the [bleep] did you do that?

I'm going to see to it that you don't do it again.

How? How?

Did you see Scrapp and Tomie was kissing each other...

Uh-huh.

Why you so pressing on going this far?

We're going to the engagement party.

You-- you frustrate me when you do that.

What are you hiding?

Have y'all seen Karlie? What is up with her?

I think I should go crash her engagement party.

Like, what y'all think about that?

This is Che Mack, she's gonna be y'all DJ.

Oh, you're the DJ. Yes!

I know you.

I want to send a little gift with you to the party.

No way, Jose! Yes, girl, yes.

[Che on PA] I'm thankful for all my friends who came here tonight.

I want to use this occasion

to expose your ultimate secrets.

When? [shouting] That's some bull[bleep].

♪